Top terminal and last two towers.Uni-G drive station.View down the line.Upper lift line.Lower lift line.Garaventa CTEC tower with extension and new crossarm.Return terminal.Unload area.Top station from above.Another view of the top.Side view of the base.Loading area with Chairkit carpet.
Ah ok thanks, that’s interesting! Afaik there’s no UNI-G six-pack here in Europe which doesn’t use the 6.1m gauge. I’m guessing that’s also why 6.1 m tower heads need to be imported by Doppelmayr USA?
Park City might want to look into building another lift out of King Con’s base. If anything ever happens to King Con, all of the skiers in the area are stuck at the bottom with nowhere to go. I am not even sure where it would/should go.
It may (extremely unlikely) be possible to cut a cat road from the bottom of King Con to the bottom of Silver Star, then if Silver Star got realigned and served as a base area this would create an egress to King Con. Plus, Silver Star is on the bus route.
I should have been more specific. Silver Star is a stop on the free bus route that stops at PC and Canyons so if King Con went down people could ride that.
There are tons of places where riding a single-dependency lift is the only way out of the terrain pod. Doubtful they would build a lift in the King Con area specifically for this reason.
This is do different than High Noon Express at Vail, Rose Bowl at Beaver Creek, Wayback at Keystone (techincally is a flat egress/road out), Montezuma at A-Basin, Beavers at A-Basin (technically has an egress but its EX terrain), and may other lifts at many other resorts.
Well…. High Noon got its relief lift this year. Game Creek has the same issue, though. Mineral at Snowbasin, Strawberry at Snowbasin (until the end of this season, at least), and Lady Morgan at Deer Valley are just a few other examples.
This is one of the two lifts with a conveyor loading system at Park City. The other is 3 Kings. (Fixed Triple) Both Doppelmayr.
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Both of those have ‘King’ in their name. Coincidence? *I don’t think so*
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The King conspiracy: A tale of loading carpets. I can see the headline now.
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Any idea why this six pack has such a narrow gauge?
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It’s not the 6.1 meter gauge, but it is the North American standard.
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Ah ok thanks, that’s interesting! Afaik there’s no UNI-G six-pack here in Europe which doesn’t use the 6.1m gauge. I’m guessing that’s also why 6.1 m tower heads need to be imported by Doppelmayr USA?
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Yes, I think your corrrect.
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Park City might want to look into building another lift out of King Con’s base. If anything ever happens to King Con, all of the skiers in the area are stuck at the bottom with nowhere to go. I am not even sure where it would/should go.
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It may (extremely unlikely) be possible to cut a cat road from the bottom of King Con to the bottom of Silver Star, then if Silver Star got realigned and served as a base area this would create an egress to King Con. Plus, Silver Star is on the bus route.
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I should have been more specific. Silver Star is a stop on the free bus route that stops at PC and Canyons so if King Con went down people could ride that.
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I think it would be a high speed quad running from the bottom of King Con to the Summit House, functioning as the reliever lift for Silverlode.
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There are tons of places where riding a single-dependency lift is the only way out of the terrain pod. Doubtful they would build a lift in the King Con area specifically for this reason.
This is do different than High Noon Express at Vail, Rose Bowl at Beaver Creek, Wayback at Keystone (techincally is a flat egress/road out), Montezuma at A-Basin, Beavers at A-Basin (technically has an egress but its EX terrain), and may other lifts at many other resorts.
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Well…. High Noon got its relief lift this year. Game Creek has the same issue, though. Mineral at Snowbasin, Strawberry at Snowbasin (until the end of this season, at least), and Lady Morgan at Deer Valley are just a few other examples.
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Errr… Mineral at Snowbird, obviously, not Basin
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Those terminals are stunning, especially when you see them after the riding through the hideous and loud terminals on the red pine gondola
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I completely agree that the terminals are great. I tend not to notice the Red Pine Gondola though.
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